Heartbeat

"This is a means of self-defense, not a reason for recklessness. You should still be careful.

As an eye-catching beauty, you shouldn't be so careless."

Entering the house, and looking at the books piled up into a small mountain, Sasaki Fuyumi still did not forget to admonish her while selecting.

After all, for him, it was just a matter of speaking a few words.

Compared to the risk of such a beautiful girl encountering danger, his effort or even the cost he would pay was almost negligible, as long as she took one or two of his words to heart it would be a good deed.

And because she had a childhood sweetheart as kind and caring as the boy, Natsuha Shinomiya didn't dislike gentle and well-intentioned people, so heading the boy's words, she didn't retort with something like 'mind your own business.'

Instead, she crossed her arms with her chest and stood not far behind him, staring at his back with interest.

"A beautiful girl? I didn't expect Sasaki-san to be such a sweet talker."

Although she doesn't like these kind of people and thinks that these kind of people are usually scum who like to play with women, but she wouldn't dislike Sasaki just for this comment, especially since he had just helped her and advised her kindly.

She was just puzzled because Sasaki, with his handsome appearance, didn't seem like someone who would say such things directly.

"If honest compliments can be counted as eloquence, then I guess I am quite the talker."

Sasaki, dusting off a book before setting it aside and pulling out another one from the middle, turned around, and stared into Natsuha Shinomiya's wine-red eyes with a smile on his face.

Thump—

Looking at the boy's handsome face illuminated by the slanting light from outside the window and hearing his smiling words, Natsuha felt her heartbeat inexplicably quicken.

As she looked directly into those deep eyes, even her body felt slightly hot.

Feeling inexplicably flustered, the girl quickly blinked her bright eyes and unnaturally shifted her gaze away from him.

At the same time, she reached out and twirled her hair around his ears, appearing to be casual:

"It seems you are quite self-aware."

Retorting to cover up her nervousness, the girl couldn't figure out what was happening to her, but she knew that something bad might happen if she stayed alone with him here any longer.

Driven by a subconscious urge to escape, she walked up to him and urged him:

"Haven't you found everything yet?"

Seeing her standing next to him, and smelling the fragrance surrounding him, Sasaki Fuyumi took a half step back and put down a few books in his hands.

"I'm not sure which books I need, but I've found all the books for the main subject."

"Let me help you take a look."

Smoothing the hem of her skirt behind her, Shinomiya Natsuha squatted down, arranging her smooth purple hair to reveal her small and delicate ears, and began helping him sort through the stack of books. "Take this one, and this one... though we received this one, we haven't had the class, so it's not needed... this one…"

Standing aside and watching the girl bend over in her seductive posture, Sasaki let out a breath and muttered secretly in his heart

'It seems I have to think of a way to keep Otome tonight?

Otherwise, if it continues like this, I would really suffocate to death... But what excuse should I use?'

As his body strengthened, his desires grew as well.

Feeling his self-control getting weaker and weak, he knew he needed to find a way to curb his growing desires.

After all, a man only stops having such thoughts when his pockets are empty..

But what to do?

While Sasaki thought of despicable ways to deceive and kidnap a certain pink haired girl, he didn't notice that his hand, that was mindlessly moving through the books, and the hand of Natsuha Shinomiya, who was distracted, and completely focused on finding the books beside him were getting closer and closer.

It wasn't until a delicate, soft, and slippery sensation surged into his palm that Sasaki secretly screamed in his heart.

On the other side, Shinomiya Natsuha, whose hand was grabbed suddenly, widened her eyes in disbelief.

After a moment of astonishment, her first reaction was to shake off his hand and then scold him angrily.

But before she could raise her eyebrows, and open her mouth to speak, Sasaki tightened his grip on her hand, made a 'shush' gesture to her, and at the same time tilted his head toward her side.

Her heart skipped a beat, and Natsuha Shinomiya, who somehow subconsciously believed in him, slowly turned her head, only to see a grey mouse squatting on the book she was holding, standing upright, and looking at her curiously.

"Squeak?"

"Ah... Ah! A mouse, go away, go away, go away quickly!!!"

Frightened by the mouse, the girl instantly jumped up in a position Sasaki could have never imagined.

As she threw the book away, the girl clung to the boy's body from the front, just like a koala.

With her chest against his face, her arms around his neck, and her legs wrapped around his waist, it was quite an ambiguous pose.

Fortunately, Sasaki Fuyumi's body had been strengthened, so he was not crushed to the ground by her sudden impact.

However, half-squatting and being embraced in this way was still extremely uncomfortable for him.

In order to calm down the still struggling and panicked girl, Sasaki instinctively used the move that has been used by the elders of the families for several centuries to discipline a naughty child.

Slap—

Slapping her plump and soft buttocks.

Perhaps it was because he used a bit too much force, Sasaki Fuyumi could clearly feel Natsuha Shinomiya's whole body tremble; from the targeted ass to top following his slap.

Feeling the soft touch of the fabric that was not separated by the hem of the skirt, the boy swallowed,

moistening his dry throat, and nonchalantly removed the now-still girl from his body.

Damn it!

"It's okay now."

"Mhm..."

With her head hanging low, and her bangs and side hair covering her blushing face, Shinomiya Natsuha softly responded in a barely audible voice.

Like a mosquito.

Feeling a tingling soreness at her back, she slightly closed her plump legs and her hands unconsciously reached behind to subtly adjust her skirt.

'It's just that I was too nervous and broke into a cold sweat, not because of…'

Thinking like this, she comforted herself...

In the bottom of her heart..

She didn't want to mention it and didn't dare to think about what happened just now.

Comforting internally, the girl blinked her moist eyes, exhaled softly, and pointed to the books she had found.

"Here are the remaining books that need to be picked up. Class is about to start, so let's go quickly."

"Okay." Suppressing the destructive turmoil in his heart and the urge to act, the boy quickly nodded and picked up the books.

And when he walked out of the warehouse and was about to lock the door.

Sasaki, using the light, glanced back at the desolate interior of the room and noticed the grey mouse standing on the pile of books, gently twitching its nose and looking towards him.

"Jiji?"

'Good mouse, come again next time, and I'll bring you something tasty!'

Bang—